With an election looming the final exchanges of numerous political battles are playing out, the most bitter of which feature antagonists who are not only at the end of a parliament — but the end of their careers. A case in p...

Aside from the hilarity of George “not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion” Galloway providing a safe space for women, Scrapbook couldn’t help noticing that the branding of the “Hello L...

The day before Public Accounts Select Committee chair Margaret Hodge led the grilling of HMRC officials as part of their inquiry into tax avoidance and evasion last month, she told Sky News of HSBC boss turned Tory trade mini...

With David Cameron claiming that councillors (and others in authority) who refuse to blow the whistle on sexual exploitation should be jailed, it is worth noting that Keith Mitchell and Louise Chapman — the leader and executive member...

While UKIP have attempted to make a virtue of their oftentimes unprofessional campaigning, one might expect their Westminster candidates to at least have a clue where their constituencies are. First up, Manchester Evening News report o...

So the Tories have launched their first paid billboard poster of the general election. It’s produced byM&C Saatchi, stewarded by Thatcher’s favourite ad gurus — and not a reheated Lynton Crosby effort from ten years ago. A...

After Natalie Bennet’s performance last week, one might assume that whoever the Tories put up to front their new housing policy would know what they were talking about. Errrr, nope: Apparently it is “very clear”: “How we...

With Oxfordshire County Council set to be slammed by an inquiry into child and grooming rape tomorrow, the councillor with legal responsibility for children’s services during an eight year period of failure not onl...

Tory minister and former aide to George Osborne Amber Rudd MP has claimed that an undeclared role as a “partner” in a firm of management consultants to the finance sector was a “voluntary advisory role&...

With the identity of London-bred ISIS butcher ‘Jihadi John’ revealed by the Washington Post earlier today, the media descended on a press conference by ‘rights group’ CAGE. When not scratching their heads a...

Having contacted the registrar Alison White earlier this week, Scrapbook’s question as to whether second-jobbing MPs are covered by the Lobbying Act appears to have prompted a ‘ruling’ — briefed to the Guardian &mdas...

A group of Conservative councillors in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are conducting just one surgery each PER YEAR, it has emerged. It gets worse. Lazy representatives — who each take home between £...

Tory defence minister Anna Soubry has been forced to deny calling Ed Miliband a “sanctimonious cunt” during PMQs. BuzzFeed has obtained the following leaked footage from the floor of the House, used to produce the BBC documentary Ins...

Father of the House Sir Peter Tapsell’s nightmare vision of a system in which MPs are banned from coining it in with second jobs: “I fear that if members of this house are not allowed a second job, then membership will largely be con...

So Malcolm Rifkind has fallen on his sword, with plotting by local Tories playing no small role. Seditious members of Kensington Conservative Association were aided by the timing of the following: Kensington Conservative Association AGM is on Th...

Taking on retention of public affairs consultants by local authorities, Eric Pickles cites think tank research on “sock puppets”: “the practice of government lobbying government is not just confined to quangos. The Institu...

Given the latest lobbying sting, perhaps time to reprise this August 2014 exchange between Hugo (son of Malcolm) Rifkind and Toby Young, in which the pair argue over whether Hugo will get an honorific as a consequence of his father’s resignatio...

Deputy leader of council took snap during opening day for local crematorium Operational facility had already performed 400 services for local families. Two grandparents in their eighties were cremated on previous day Sitting Lib D...

Releasing a graphic referencing the (false) claims that Ed Miliband colluded to avoid inheritance tax on his father’s estate, the Kippers have decided to claim they have a “zero tolerance” stance on tax avoidance: “UKIP h...

With the chief political commentator of the Telegraph quitting in disgust citing the influence of paid advertising over editorial, it is perhaps appropriate that a rebuttal of Peter Oborne’s charges should be launched f...